Revisiting Mental Simulation in Language Comprehension: Six Replication Attempts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Zwaan, Rolf A ^a   Pecher, Diane ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLOR; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; REPLICATION STUDY; RESPONSE TIME; SHAPE; SIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871580104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051382     Document Type: Article

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